Join our Team

• Use lived experience of mental ill health to deliver outreach services to clients supporting their recovery goals and wellbeing
• Fixed Term, Part Time (30.4 hours per week until March 2027)
• Company Car assess
• Northern Suburbs – Darebin and Whittlesea LGAs

Mind strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people with a lived experience of mental ill health and recovery, and applicants from all cultures, genders, sexualities, bodies, abilities, spiritualities, ages and backgrounds.

Mind Australia is one of the country’s leading community-managed specialist mental health service providers with a range of residential, mobile outreach, centre based and online services. We have been supporting people living with the day-to-day impacts of mental illness, as well as their families, friends and carers for over 45 years.

We provide practical and motivational support that helps people to develop the skills they need to move on, thrive and improve the quality of their lives. It’s an approach to mental health and wellbeing that looks at the whole person in the context of their daily life. Mind is committed to diversity and social inclusion.

About the role

The Early Intervention Psychological Support Response Service (EIPSRS) provides a person-centred approach to recovery which is tailored to meet the needs of those living with mental health challenges in the community. EIPSRS services is an individualised, tiered complexity program of recovery support of up to 12 months delivered to clients between the ages of 16 and 65 years with the level of engagement determined by their needs.

We are seeking an empathic, self-motivated Peer Practitioner for a Fixed Term, Part Time (30.4 hrs per week) opportunity until March 2027, who can utilise their lived and living experience of mental ill health and recovery to deliver assertive person-centred outreach services. In this position you will support clients to achieve their recovery goals, build capacity and living skills, strengthen social and community networks, maintain housing and live independently. As this position requires travel across the Northern suburbs region a fully maintained company car is provided.

Key responsibilities

• Utilise your own lived and living experience of mental ill health and recovery to inform your work and that of the team.
• Plan, develop and deliver group work programs utilising collaborative processes informed by co-design methods with service users to design programs that are meaningful and purposeful to the service user group.
• Support family and carers through understanding their concerns and the provision of information, education and referrals.
• Actively participate in team, case and handover meetings through a lived experience/peer lens/IPS practice lens.
• Assist the person with system navigation and linkages to community agencies or support systems that will assist them to address life impacts and barriers to full social, educational and employment participation, as required.

What you’ll bring

• Completion of Intentional Peer Support Core and/ or Advanced Training and/or Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work is desirable but not required.
• Lived experience and willingness to support clients through sharing your own learnings and recovery orientated practice is required.
• Experience, expertise and/or desire in working directly with people with mental health issues, and their families and carers.
• Demonstrated knowledge or ability to acquire knowledge in the application of theoretical approaches, practices and appropriate service responses including family inclusive practice, recovery-oriented practice, trauma informed theory and anti-racist/anti-oppressive frameworks.
• Completion of relevant discipline-specific training such as Intentional Peer Support Core training or has a specific plan or timeline for when this occurs.

Benefits

• Salary packaging up to $15,899 p.a. allows you to allocate a portion of your pre-tax income to cover living expenses (e.g. rent, mortgage, childcare, car leasing expenses etc.)
• Option to access Meal and Entertainment allowance up to $2,650 p.a. via Salary Packaging.
• Generous leave entitlements including 8 weeks paid parental leave, 17.5% annual leave loading.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), provided by Converge International, for you and your immediate family members.
• Fitness Passport - Access to our corporate health and fitness program, providing you and family with access to a wide choice of fitness facilities.
• Workplace Banking Portal that provides convenient access to a range of banking and lifestyle benefits offered through Mind’s CommBank program.
• Professional development through regular Practice Development sessions and coaching with your supervisor.

Interested?

To apply visit Mind Careers - reference number 499371. Online applications must be submitted by 11pm Sunday 19 April 2026. We encourage you to apply promptly as the advertisement may close early should a suitable applicant be sourced. Please contact the person below for more information.

Sally Kyriakopoulos, Service Manager - EIPSRS Melbourne

Sally.Kyriakopoulos@mindaustralia.org.au

Position Description

 PD Peer Practitioner (EIPSRS) 20260410.pdf

The successful applicant is required to complete comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check, NDIS Workers Screening Check.

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment process. If you require any support or reasonable adjustments to complete your application, please contact us at hr@mindaustralia.org.au